Roughly a month-and-a-half ago, GM Authority reported that Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary, surpassed two million driverless miles. Now, the automated driving service has eclipsed the three million driverless miles mark.
In a post to social media, Cruise announced that its Cruise AVs have officially racked up three million driverless miles. This comes as the robotaxi service surpassed 1.5 million driverless miles in early May 2023. As is evidenced in the exponential growth of driverless miles, Cruise is quickly breaking milestone after milestone, and is widely expected to continue to do so.
This steady growth comes as Cruise continues its expansion into new markets. In fact, the robotaxi service recently launched in Houston, Texas, and will debut in Dallas, Texas soon. This expansion comes as a result of extensive testing in San Francisco, California, with cities like Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas initially earmarked for Cruise’s next stage of development.
However, the automated driving service hasn’t been universally welcomed. As previously covered by GM Authority, city officials around California – including the San Francisco Fire Chief –Â are worried that self-driving services such as Cruise and Waymo are expanding too quickly, and that local governments are unprepared to handle potential issues related to Cruise AV incidents.
Notably, this development comes as state regulators are preparing to grant a request to massively expand Cruise’s operations.
✅ 3,000,000 driverless miles!
Nearly 2x faster than our last million.
Working hard to bring safe and convenient AV rides to more and more people! https://t.co/ig7cBkvUzp
— Kyle Vogt (@kvogt) July 7, 2023
In other Cruise AV-related news, the self-driving subsidiary recently announced that it’s partnering with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) to help reduce alcohol- and drug-related vehicles fatalities.
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Cities and towns who haven’t already done so should outlaw these vehicles on public roads. That are a menace and there’s no real read for them. They could be utilized in closed circuits like parks and airports.
Yes! Leave the roads to drivers who are drunk, high, distracted, texting, or otherwise impaired. These extraordinarily safe Cruise vehicles, with their safety record backed by data, are making those other drivers look bad!
Yes, and take away freedom from those who do not abuse their driving privileges. Seriously, is gm paying you to make these comments? Ceding our freedom of mobility to computer-controlled drones controlled by the government is asinine. Kind of like what Ben Frankin once said: “Those who give up liberty for temporary safety deserve neither”
I would like to know the accident rate for these vehicles for 2 million miles as compared to the same type of car driver driven for 2 million miles. I have a feeling that Super Cruise is better. This is a very necessary and needed service that benefits many people, including the elderly and handicapped. The technology we have now is going to improve over time and driverless cars will be the norm in the future.
Any able bodied person who coedes their driving privileges to one of these drones is an idiot. This will not benefit the elderly and disabled because they will probably still need some assistance coming and going to their destination.
We had this discussion before, we’ll never agree.
No driver equals no one to assist the elderly or handicapped enter/exit the vehicle and/or load/unload a wheelchair.
GM is coming to the driverless service industry in a big way.
In other “exciting” news, my grass grew this week and the wall I painted dried.
This is a good news story, but a million miles by 300 vehicles in 6 weeks is not too impressive. It’s less than 100 miles per day per vehicle. Vehicle useage needs to be serveral times more.
The “good news” will come when these drones are pulled off public streets.
Autonomous vehicles, led by GM’s Cruise, will change the world – more mobility for those needing transportation, fewer accidents, increased transportation efficiency and effectiveness. Autonomy will soon encompass delivery vehicles (FedEx, UPS, groceries), and long-distance trucking. In combination with electric. The world will be a very different place within the next 10 years. We are witnessing a 100+ year revolution in transportation – autonomy, and electric. Amazing. And hugely beneficial to our society and the economy. And the planet. Simply amazing. Appreciate what you’re witnessing.
Would you like some sugar with that Kool Aide?
CLC you’re exactly right. The world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. Technology is going to make the world a better place for everyone. I only hope we can solve our social problems as fast.
Technology, or should I say its misuse, will lead to the downfall of man.
Back to the Stone Age. Have fun.🤣
I think the days of my youth were a lot better. Now we have people who cannot write, use proper grammar, do basic math, and have basic social skills. The computer will do it all for us. The problem is the computer will get us the answer but applying the information or surviving without it is another thing.
I get what you’re saying Tigger. Do you know why kids are like they are these days? It’s because of us, maybe not us individually, but as a generation. We coddled these kids from day one. We had more money than our parents, we actually grew up poor compared to standards today. We were the generation who sent kids to the prom in a limo…..really, in what damn world does that make sense. A lot of kids don’t want to work because they never had to, we had to wait for some kid to graduate and go to college just to get a paper route. I agree with you on societal issues with kids. Technology is not going to solve problems with people, that’s going to be up to the next generation. I hope they do a better job.